Director, Access Marketing — Payer & Patient Value (Remote)

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals; Cambridge (MA); Remote; USD 224,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals seeks a Director, Access Marketing, to lead strategic development and execution of market access resources for avexitide, engaging payers, PBMs, health systems, and patient services programs. This role partners with HEOR, Medical Affairs, and field teams to translate insights into compliant, impactful materials.

The position requires extensive experience in market access marketing and cross-functional leadership, with travel occasionally and a core focus on advancing

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree such as MBA, MPH, PharmD, or related discipline preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in pharmaceutical/biotech market access marketing, payer marketing, patient services marketing, managed markets, or related commercial roles.
• Experience building payer resources, such as PIE presentations, PVP materials, and disease state education
• Experience building HCP office support and patient services resources, such as prior authorization and appeals kits, medical exception resources, coding, billing, and reimbursement guides.
• Strong experience using access platforms to monitor coverage and policy and building action plans to support launch/post-launch environments.
• Experience with rare diseases, specialty products, launches, or patient support programs preferred.
• Proven ability to develop compliant, customer-facing market access resources from strategy through execution.
• Experience leading agency partners, materials review processes, cross-functional teams, and launch or lifecycle access initiatives.
• Ability and willingness to travel occasionally.

Responsibilities

• Own the development of access marketing strategy, messaging, value narratives, and customer-facing resources for avexitide, supporting market access field teams, patient services, and the field sales team.
• Lead the development of avexitide payer and access marketing resources, including Pre-Approval Information Exchange (PIE) presentations, payer value proposition (PVP) materials, disease education resources, and budget impact models, in close collaboration with HEOR, Medical Affairs, and the National Accounts team.
• Lead the development of access materials, including HCP office staff educational resources and patient services program marketing assets, in strong partnership with Patient Services, Trade, HCP Marketing, and other cross-functional stakeholders
• Use internal and external resources to track, monitor, and improve avexitide coverage across commercial access customers (PBMs and payers) and government customer types (Medicare, Medicaid, VA, DoD, and TRICARE).
• Create PBM, payer, health system, specialty pharmacy, trade, and provider office materials that communicate product value, coverage considerations, reimbursement pathways, affordability support, and patient services offerings.
• Partner with Market Access, Brand Marketing, Patient Services, Medical Affairs, HEOR/RWE, Legal, Regulatory, Compliance, Field Access, Training, and Commercial Operations to ensure materials are accurate, compliant, differentiated, and actionable.
• Use customer insights, payer dynamics, coverage trends, and field feedback to refine access messaging and identify unmet educational needs.
• Manage agency partners and vendors through briefing, content development, review, production, deployment, and measurement.
• Establish success metrics for access marketing initiatives and evaluate effectiveness through field feedback, customer engagement, and business impact indicators.
• Champion materials through medical, regulatory, and legal review.

Skills

Market access marketing

Payer marketing

Patient services marketing

Managed markets

Lifecycle access initiatives

Agency management

Cross-functional leadership

Travel willingness

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA/MPH/PharmD preferred

Job description

Amylyx Pharmaceuticals seeks a Director, Access Marketing, to lead strategic development and execution of market access resources for avexitide, engaging payers, PBMs, health systems, and patient services programs. This role partners with HEOR, Medical Affairs, and field teams to translate insights into compliant, impactful materials.

The position requires extensive experience in market access marketing and cross-functional leadership, with travel occasionally and a core focus on advancing